This is the first review dealing with the coordination chemistry of metal complexes with Girard's reagents and their hydrazones. The short introduction points out to chemical properties and significance of these organic compounds. The next section briefly describes synthetic methods for preparing complexes with Girard's reagents, as well as modes of coordination of these ligands. The last two extensive sections review the preparation, stereochemistry and structural characteristics of metal complexes with Girard's hydrazones, including some newer non-hydrazonic derivatives of Girard's reagents, also.[Acknowledgments. Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 172014

A new salt of Schiff base of aminoguanidine and 2-acetylpyridine, and its zinc(II) complex were obtained and their physicochemical and structural properties studied. The reaction of an aqueous solution of the chloride ligand salt and NH 4 NCS resulted in formation of the dithiocyanate ligand salt, L•2HNCS, while the reaction of the obtained salt with zinc(II) acetate gave a neutral complex of the formula [ZnL(NCS) 2 ]. In this complex, chelate ligand is coordinated in its neutral form, in a common tridentate NNN manner, via pyridine, azomethine and imino nitrogen atoms of the aminoguanidine fragment. This coordination mode results in formation of two strained five-membered metallocycles. Zinc(II) is situated in a distorted square-pyramidal environment of the tridentate ligand and one thiocyanate ion in the equatorial and the other thiocyanate ion in the apical position. The crystal structure of the ligand salt is stabilized by N-H … N and N-H … S interactions formed between the cationic and anionic species, while the three-dimensional crystal packing of the complex units is based on weak N-H … S interactions which involve the S acceptors from both NCS ligands.

In the reaction of 1,3-dimethyl-pyrazole-5-carboxylic acid (HL) with M(OAc)2?4H2O, (M = Cu, Co) two novel complexes have been prepared, square-planar [CuL2(H2O)2] and octahedral [CoL2(MeOH)4]. The crystal structures have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In both complexes the deprotonated acid displays monodentate coordination to the metal ions. According to the results of CSD survey this is the first structural report on the metal complexes with N1-substituted pyrazole-5-carboxylic ligand. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 172014 i br. 172035]

The synthesis of butyl N-(3-chloropropyl)-(2S)-alaninate hydrochloride is reported here. The compound was characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, and 1 H-and 13 C-NMR spectroscopy. The structure of butyl N-(3-chloropropyl)-(2S)-alaninate hydrochloride was confirmed by single-crystal X-ray analysis.

Michael addition of diethyl malonate, ethyl acetoacetate, acetylacetone, and cyanide anion to acryloylferrocene promoted by a catalyst in situ generated from a sacrificial zirconium anode is described. Most of the obtained compounds were identified by comparison of their spectral and physical data with those published elsewhere, whereas the only newly synthesized compound - diethyl 2,2-bis(3-ferrocenyl-3-oxopropyl)malonate - was completely characterized by spectral (IR, 1H- and 13C-NMR), physical and crystallographic (single-crystal X-ray) data. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 172034]